Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions: With Detailed Notices of the Expeditions in Search of the Missing Vessals Under Sir John FranklinGeo. H. Derby and Company, 1852 - 396 páginas |
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... heavy showers , and several tons weight of ice accu- mulated about the sides of the brig , ( the Trent , ) and form ed a complete casing to the planks , which received an additional layer at each plunge of the vessel . So great indeed ...
... heavy showers , and several tons weight of ice accu- mulated about the sides of the brig , ( the Trent , ) and form ed a complete casing to the planks , which received an additional layer at each plunge of the vessel . So great indeed ...
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... heavy swell into the packed ice , and the increasing peril of their situa- tion may be imagined from the following graphic de- scription : " The pieces at the edge of the pack were at one time wholly immersed in the sea , and at the ...
... heavy swell into the packed ice , and the increasing peril of their situa- tion may be imagined from the following graphic de- scription : " The pieces at the edge of the pack were at one time wholly immersed in the sea , and at the ...
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... heavy shocks , in a foundering condition . For the main object of the expedition they were now useless , and , both being in a leaky_state , they bore up for Fair Haven , in Spitzbergen . In approaching the anchorage in South Gat , the ...
... heavy shocks , in a foundering condition . For the main object of the expedition they were now useless , and , both being in a leaky_state , they bore up for Fair Haven , in Spitzbergen . In approaching the anchorage in South Gat , the ...
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... heavy loads of wood or stone . On the 18th of October , Mr. Back and Mr. Wentzel , accompanied by two Canadian voyageurs , two Indians and their wives , set out for Fort Providence to make the necessary arrangements for transporting the ...
... heavy loads of wood or stone . On the 18th of October , Mr. Back and Mr. Wentzel , accompanied by two Canadian voyageurs , two Indians and their wives , set out for Fort Providence to make the necessary arrangements for transporting the ...
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... . They then retired to bed , and kept to their blankets all next day , as the snow drift was so heavy as to prevent their lighting a fire with the green and frozen willows , which were FRANKLIN'S FIRST LAND EXPEDITION . 77.
... . They then retired to bed , and kept to their blankets all next day , as the snow drift was so heavy as to prevent their lighting a fire with the green and frozen willows , which were FRANKLIN'S FIRST LAND EXPEDITION . 77.
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Admiralty Arctic arrived attempt August Back Baffin's Bay Barrow's Strait Beechey Behring's Strait boats Boothia Cape Walker Capt Captain Parry Captain Sir coast Commander Coppermine Coppermine River course crew deer direction discovery dispatched drift eastward endeavor England Enterprise Erebus and Terror Esquimaux examine expedition exploring feet floes frozen Fury gale harbor Hecla hope Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Indians journey July June Lady Franklin Lake Lancaster Sound land latitude Lieut Lieutenant Mackenzie River Melville Island miles named navigation North Somerset northern northward northwest passage officers pack Parry's party passage passed Plover Polar Sea proceeded provisions quarters reached Regent Inlet Repulse Bay Rescue Richardson Ross's sailed seamen season sent ships shore Sir James Ross Sir John Franklin Sir John Ross sledges snow southward Spitzbergen tion vessels Victoria Land voyage Wellington Channel westward whalers wind winter